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MOTOR FORDRAWING WIRES THROUGH TUBES.

No. 274,818. Patented Mar.27, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT -OFE1cE.

WILLIAM J. PHILIPS AND GEORGE L. KITSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN SYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS TO SAID PHILIPS.

MOTOR Foe DRAWING WIRESTHROUGH TUBES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,818, dated March 27, 1883.

I Application filed July 29,1882. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM J. PHILIPS and GEORGE L. KI'rsoN, both citizens of .the

United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennadvance the magnet and any light thread or wire attached to it through the tube or conduit.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a Q front endelevation; Fig. 2, a section of the tube or conduit, showing inside the same, in side elevation, the traveling elect'ro-magnet and its appurtenances. Fig. 3 is asection of the tube or conduit and a plan of the traveling electro-magnet and its appurtenances.

Similar letters represent similar parts in the several views.

or represents the tube or conduit; b, the magnet, which is provided with wheels h. The

armature g is attached to a pivoted post, p, which is provided with a spring, q, to draw the armature away from the magnet when the current of electricity is broken, and it is also provided with elastic prongs 1" r, the points of whichare kept in contact with the interior' surface of the tube or conduit a, as shown.

8 and s are the opposite ends of the wire connecting the magnet with a battery. (Not shown.) When the electric circuit through the wire 8 s is closed the armature g is prevented from moving toward the magnet by the prongs r and w, and the magnet being free to move advances forward to the armature, and this movementoccurs each time the circuit is closed. The magnet, being thus WILLIAM J. PHILIPS. GEORGE L. KITSON.

Witnesses:

J. E. SHAW, V JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM. 

